Orcon UBS performance - can it be this bad?

[Nick Rout]

I used to have paradise jetstart 128k. I now have Orcon UBS 256k. It is
worse! higher latency, max speed outside NZ in the order of 64k.

Previously when I had a bittorrent going I would absolutely saturate the 128k connection, and be lucky to get any other traffic in or out. Now
its like its deliberately leaving 3/4 of my bandwidth for headroom. But
its not only bad on bittorrent, also general browsing, downloading
iso's, the works.

I use gentoo linux and download a lot of files from
http://linux.jetstreamgames.co.nz . That, and it seems most other nz
sites go fine.

I am using a DSE XH7916. Nothing has changed except my login name and
password.


Should I be gathering firm statistics and moaning to orcon, or is this
just par for the UBS course?

[Steven Ellis]

Post by Nick Rout
I used to have paradise jetstart 128k. I now have Orcon UBS 256k. It is
worse! higher latency, max speed outside NZ in the order of 64k.
Previously when I had a bittorrent going I would absolutely saturate the 128k connection, and be lucky to get any other traffic in or out. Now
its like its deliberately leaving 3/4 of my bandwidth for headroom. But
its not only bad on bittorrent, also general browsing, downloading
iso's, the works.
I use gentoo linux and download a lot of files from
http://linux.jetstreamgames.co.nz . That, and it seems most other nz
sites go fine.
I am using a DSE XH7916. Nothing has changed except my login name and
password.
Should I be gathering firm statistics and moaning to orcon, or is this
just par for the UBS course?

Orcon were originally blaming Telecom for their UBS issues, but that
side of things appears to be resolved. now the issues appear to be
upstream. NZ trafffic works reasonably well, but intl sucks.

Steve